The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1887-11-18

be as many classes in society as now, but
the classes will not be regulated by birth
or wealth, or accident, but by the scale Of
virtue and bsnevolence, aid people W III
be assigned to their places IS good, on
vely good, or most excellent. So, also
commercial life will be attunsd, and there
will be twelve in every dozea, and sixteen
ounces in every pound. and apples at the
bottom of the barrel as sound as those
On the top, and silk goods will not be half
cotton, sud sellers will not have to charge
honest people more than the right price
because others will not pay, and goods
will come 10 you corresponding
with the sample by which you purchased
them, and coffee will not be chickoried,
and sugar win not be sanded, and milk
will not be chalked, and adulteration Of
food will b, a States prison offense. Aye,
all things shall be attuned. Elections in
England and the United States will no
and scurrility, but the elevation Of right.
eous men in a righteous way.
In the sixteenth century the singers
called the Fischer Brothers reached the
lowest bass ever recorded, and the high est
note ever thrilled was by La Bastardella,
and Catalini's voice had a compass of
three and half octaves; but Christianity
is more wonderful; for 1t runs all up and
down the greatest heights and the deep
ests depths Of the worlds necessity, and
it will compass ev cry thing and bring
it in accord with the song
which the morning stars sang at the lay.
ing of the worlds corner stone. All the
sacred music in homes, and concert halls
and churches tends toward this consum
nation. Make it more and more hearty.
Sing in your families. Sing in Pom
places of business. II we with proper
spirit use these faculties, we are rehears
ing for the skies.
Heaven is to have a new song, an en-.
tirely new song, but should not wonder
if, as sometime tune on earth is fash
Toned out of many tunes, or it is one tuns
with the variations, SO some OF the songs
of the redeemed may have playing
through them the songs of earth; and how
thrilling, as coming through the great An.
them of the saved, accompanied by harp
ers with their harps and trumpeters
with their tr umpets, we should hear some
of the strains of "Antioch," and "Mount
Pisgah'' and Coronation" and "L.n-
OK" and est. Martins" and "Fountain,"
and "Ariel" and "Old Hundred!" How
they would bring to mind the praying
circles and communion days, and the
Christmas festivals, and the church wor-
ship in which on earth we mingled !
have no idea that when we bid farewell to
heart we are to bid farewell to
all these grand old Gospel hymns, which
melted and raptured our souls for SO mary
years. Now, my friends, II sin is discord
and righteousness is harmony, let us get
out of the one and enter the other. After
our dreadful civil war was over and in
the summer of 1869, q great
National peace jubilee was held
in Boston, and, as an elder Of the church
had been honored by the selection of some
of his music to be rendered on that occa-
sion, accompanied him to the jubilee.
Forty thousand people sat and stood in
the great Coliseum erected for that pur.
pose. Thousands of wind and stringed in
struments. Twelve thousand trained
voices. The masterpieces of all ages rem
dered, hour after hour and day after day
-Handel's "Judas Maccabaeus," Sphor's
"Last Judgment" Beethoven's "Mount OF
Olives" Haydn's Creation" Mendels.
sohn's "Elijah," Meyerbeer's "Corna
tion March" rolling on and up in surge,
that beloved against the heavens
The mighty cadences within were
on the outside by
the ringing of the bells Of the city,
and cannon on the commons, in exact
time with the music, discharged by cleo
tricity, laundering their awful bars of
harmony that astonished all nations.
Sometime bowed my head and wept.
Sometimes stood up in the enchantment,
and sometimes the effect was so over.
powering I felt could not endure It.
When all the voices were in full chorus,
and all the batons in full wave, and all
the orchestra in full triumph, and
q hundred anvils under mighty
hammers were in full clang.
and all the towers Of the city rolled in
their ma jectic sweetness, and the whole
building auaked with the boom Of thirty
cannon. Parepa Rosa, with a voice that
will never again be eQualed on earth I'M
til the Archangelic voice prOclaims that
time shall be no longer, rose above all
other sounds in her rendering of our ma.
tional air, the Star Spangled Banner. II
was too much for a mortal, and quite
enough for an immortal, to hear, and
while some tainted, one womanly spirit,
released under its power, sped away to
be with God.
o, Lord, our God, quickly usher in the
whole worlds peace jubilee, and all is
lands of the sea Join the five Continents,
and all the voices and musical instruments
Of al! nations combine, and all the organs
that ever sounded requiem Of sorrow
sound only q grand march Of joy, and
all the bells that tolled for burial ring for
and all the cannon that over
hurled death across the nations sound to
eternal victory. and over all the &C.
claim OF earth and minstrelsy of
Heaven there will be heard one
voice sweetcr and mightier than
any human or angelic voice. q voice once
full of tears. but then full Of triumph, the
voice Of Christ saying:
am Alpha and Omega. the beginning o I'D the
End, the first and the last.
Then, at the laying Of the top-stt ne Of
The worlds history, the same voices shall
be heard as when at the laying Of the
worlds CONVERSIONS:
The morning stars sang together.
LEGAL HOLIDAYS
4 Table Showing Those Observed IN
Various states or tho Union.
January l, New Years Day, is legal holi.
day in oil the States except Arkansas, Del
aware Georgia Kentucky Maine, Massa-